Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?

c186282 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Organization wokiesux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/18/26 04:10, vallor wrote:
> At 18 Aug 2026 06:05:55 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:44:51 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>>
>>> Tried FFox and Chromium the past few days. The site is ULTRA-slow,
>>> useless.
>>
>> Brave browser. Went to the site, paged through the instructions, went to
>> the Cinnamon download, selected the Clarkson mirror, and the download
>> started immediately. Canceled the download.
>>
>> Like I've said before you have a lot more problems than the average bear.
> 
> Well, his clock is off -- probably not enough to effect TLS, but
> figuring that out is above my current paygrade.
> 
> Dear Mr. c-cipher,
> 
> Please run:
> 
> $ ntpdate -q time.nist.gov
> 
> And post what you see.  Mine says:
> 
> 2026-08-18 01:06:57.105142 (-0700) +0.000209 +/- 0.016759 time.nist.gov 132.163.96.6 s1 no-leap


   Checked, MY clock is dead on.

   Anyway, they took away my hardwire and gave
   me a 5G where the antenna is many miles away.
   Weak signal almost always, perhaps packet
   errors too.

   But why the Mint site so notably ???
   Weirdness spanned DAYS too.

   Anyway, LONG wait, it did finally come up and
   got my XFCE Mint.
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